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Mathias Benedek

Mathias Benedek

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Psychology
Austria
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
66
Citations
21292
World Ranking
2669
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Mathias Benedek is a researcher affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria, focusing primarily on psychology and neuroscience. Their work predominantly lies within experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience, with additional engagement in developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and even aspects of mechanical engineering.

The main topics of Mathias Benedek's research include creativity in education and neuroscience, neuroscience, education and cognitive function, mind wandering and attention, neural and behavioral psychology studies, education, achievement, and giftedness, visual and cognitive learning processes, and design education and practice.

Mathias Benedek has published extensively in a range of academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Creativity Research Journal
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Physics of Life Reviews

Their recent papers feature research on memory, creativity, and cognitive processes, including:

  • The role of memory in creative ideation (2023), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Elements of creative thought: Investigating the cognitive and neural correlates of association and bi-association processes (2020), published in NeuroImage

Mathias Benedek also collaborates frequently with several researchers, highlighting interdisciplinary and cooperative approaches. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andréas Fink
  • Izabela Lebuda
  • M SIMON
  • Christian Rominger
  • Roger E. Beaty

Best Publications

  • A continuous measure of phasic electrodermal activity.

    Mathias Benedek;Christian Kaernbach

  • Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Paul J. Silvia;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Markus Sommer;Martin Arendasy

  • Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

    Roger E. Beaty;Yoed N. Kenett;Alexander P. Christensen;Monica D. Rosenberg

  • Decomposition of skin conductance data by means of nonnegative deconvolution

    Mathias Benedek;Christian Kaernbach

  • Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Scott Barry Kaufman;Paul J. Silvia

  • The creative brain: investigation of brain activity during creative problem solving by means of EEG and FMRI.

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Mathias Benedek;Gernot Reishofer

  • EEG alpha power and creative ideation

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek

  • The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection

    Emanuel Jauk;Mathias Benedek;Beate Dunst;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest.

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Robin W. Wilkins;Emanuel Jauk

  • The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition

    Roger E. Beaty;Paul J. Silvia;Emily C. Nusbaum;Emanuel Jauk

  • The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

    E. Jauk;M. Benedek;A.C. Neubauer

  • Differential effects of cognitive inhibition and intelligence on creativity

    Mathias Benedek;Fabiola Franz;Moritz Heene;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • To create or to recall? Neural mechanisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink;Karl Koschutnig

  • Associative abilities underlying creativity.

    Mathias Benedek;Tanja Könen;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Alpha power increases in right parietal cortex reflects focused internal attention

    Mathias Benedek;Rainer J. Schickel;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink

  • Creativity meets neuroscience: experimental tasks for the neuroscientific study of creative thinking.

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek;Roland H Grabner;Beate Staudt

  • EEG alpha synchronization is related to top-down processing in convergent and divergent thinking

    Mathias Benedek;Sabine Bergner;Tanja Könen;Andreas Fink

  • Creating metaphors: the neural basis of figurative language production.

    Mathias Benedek;Roger E. Beaty;Emanuel Jauk;Karl Koschutnig

  • Are creative ideas novel and useful

    Jennifer Diedrich;Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection

    A.C. Neubauer;E. Jauk;M. Benedek;B. Dunst

Frequent Co-Authors

Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Andreas Fink
Andreas Fink University of Graz
Emanuel Jauk
Emanuel Jauk TU Dresden
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Ilona Papousek
Ilona Papousek University of Graz
Roland H. Grabner
Roland H. Grabner University of Graz
Yoed N. Kenett
Yoed N. Kenett Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne

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